JUST IN: President Trump says Energy Sec. Rick Perry is 'going at the end of the year.'
alleged that Trump, in the July phone call, used the power of his office"to solicit interference from a foreign country" in the 2020 election.
Earlier this week, a State Department official who had been deposed by House Democrats investigating the matter, said that Perry was a member of a trio — who called themselves"the three amigos" — appointed by acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney to spearhead Trump's efforts in Ukraine. That official, George Kent, a deputy assistant secretary of state, told lawmakers in a closed-door deposition on Tuesday that Perry, EU Ambassador Gordon Sondland and now-former special envoy Kurt Volker were tasked by Mulvaney to oversee Ukraine policy for the U.S. and that other State Department officials were sidelined, while Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani worked to pressure the Ukrainian government to investigate Hunter Biden, the son of Joe Biden.
a Trump-Zelenskiy meeting. In comments first reported by The Wall Street Journal, Perry said that Giuliani had brought up allegations of Ukrainian interference in the 2016 U.S. election — which are unfounded — and told him to"be careful" about Zelenskiy. Giuliani confirmed the call with Perry, telling NBC News:"Everything I said there I probably said on television 50 times."Speculation over Perry's resignation had run rampant in recent weeks.
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